Ray Lyman Wilbur quotes
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“Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.”
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“It is not how much you know about life but how you live your life that counts. Those who can avoid mistakes by observing the mistakes of others are most apt to keep free from sorrow. In a world full of uncertainties, the record of what has gone before-human experience-is as sure and reliable as anything of which we know.”
-- Ray Lyman WilburSource : Ray Lyman Wilbur (1940). “Human Hopes: Addresses & Papers on Education, Citizenship, & Social Porblems”
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“The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.”
-- Ray Lyman WilburSource : United States. Department of the Interior, Ray Lyman Wilbur, William Atherton DuPuy (1932). “Conservation in the Department of the Interior”, p.166
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“We must get rid of the silly, sloppy idea that all people are equal in capacity.”
-- Ray Lyman WilburSource : "Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, A Gentleman and a Scholar". Los Angeles Times, June 28, 1949.
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“It is common talk that every individual is entitled to economic security. The only animals and birds I know that have economic security are those that have been domesticated--and the economic security they have is controlled by the barbed-wire fence, the butcher's knife and the desire of others. They are milked, skinned, egged or eaten up by their protectors.”
-- Ray Lyman WilburSource : "Ray Lyman Wilbur". The Washington Post, June 28, 1949.
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Source : A. A. Milne (2013). “The Red House Mystery and Other Novels”, p.1247, eBookIt.com
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“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”
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Source : Aga Khan IV's address to the Tutzing Evangelical Academy Upon Receiving the "Tolerance" Award in Tutzing, Germany, May 20, 2006.
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“Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.”
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“He stopped and looked back at me "I love you too Pagan. I'll miss you. In every life.”
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